The region of Tusheti, spread across the peaks and valleys of the Caucasus Mountains in northeastern Georgia, is all but cut off from the outside world for seven months of the year. The one road in, through the treacherous Abano Pass, is impassable until...
In Trump's America, the Ku Klux Klan has been superseded by Nazis with European role models. Espen and journalist Ronny Berg travelled 3266 km through three states to understand what drives hate in America. "Every year there are 300 attacks from...
Whether dachshund, Persian cat, dwarf hamster, rabbit, turtle, guinea pig or singing canary - most people's most faithful furry or feathered companions usually end up being shredded at a disposal facility with slaughterhouse waste and made into soap ...
Palm oil is everywhere. As a cheap substitute to butter and other trans fats that are solid at room temperature, it has become a ubiquitous ingredient in a wide range of food products, from chocolate and margarine to breakfast cereals, biscuits, ...
The conflict between the Nigerian Army and the militants of Boko Haram, a brutal islamist group founded in 2002 and committed to establishing an Islamic State in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, has cost the lives of over 20,000 civilians, ...
In the first five months of 2016, more than 33,000 migrants made the perilous journey from the shores of North Africa to Italy. Thousands have died in the process. In the last week of May alone, an estimated 1,200 people drowned when their boats sank...
Niger has the highest rate of child marriage in the world. Three quarters of girls marry before their 18th birthday. In some rural parts of the country, almost 89% of girls marry as children. In many cases, child marriages resemble domestic slavery ...
Imagine surviving on just one meal a day. This is the reality for many living in Africa's Lake Chad region which straddles the borders of Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Conflict in the northeast of Nigeria, which periodically spills across the border...
Conflict and climate change have had a major impact on food security in sub-Saharan Africa where many countries are experiencing dangerous levels of hunger and malnutrition. This set of images, taken by Chris de Bode in Niger, Burundi and Central ...
Almost a million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015, over 800,000 of them in Germany. Most have come through the Balkans, most recently arriving in Austria from Slovenia. If Germany shuts its gates, Austrians worry they'll be the ones left without a...
The wars that swept across the Balkans in the early 1990s as former Yugoslavia imploded, pitted former compatriots against each other along ethnic and sectarian lines. Supported and encouraged by Slobodan Milosevic's government in Belgrade, Bosnian ...
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.' George Orwell Red Utopia is a beautifully executed large format art photo book documenting communist parties and their iconography in India, Italy, ...
On 26 April 2016 it will be 30 years to the day since the worst nuclear accident in human history. On this day in 1986, at 1.23am Moscow time, during an experiment to test safety procedures in the event of power failure, reactor number 4 at the ...
The Greek island of Lesvos has for the past year been at the forefront of a migration crisis that has seen over a million people making their way into the European Union, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Due to being a mere 5.5 kilometres from...
After numerous setbacks, delays and cost overruns the Panama Canal's massive expansion project, nine years in the making, is finally reaching completion with a launch date of 26 June 2016. Originally opened in 1914 the expansion, which is supposed ...
It bills itself as a "unique, exclusive and professional butlering and house management schoolthe finest and most innovative butler service training institute in the world." Set in Huize Damiaan, a former monastery founded in 1892 by the followers ...